is annyone having problems with their firewall con flicting with the patch?

[FURRY BIRD]

I have noticed issues.

[ptegan]

Re: is annyone having problems with their firewall con flicting with the patch?

EA told us about 5 weeks ago that it's best to play BF2 with the firewall OFF.

[FURRY BIRD]

Re: is annyone having problems with their firewall con flicting with the patch?

That is what I have had to do, I don't like doing that.

[Stouf]

Re: is annyone having problems with their firewall con flicting with the patch?

Agree with XM DUDE, what's the utility for a FW if you have to unload it when you launch an app' ? Another EA lack of support and customer-care...

[A$$a$$ination]

Re: is annyone having problems with their firewall con flicting with the patch?

What firewall do you use, has anyone noticed it is worse or better with a certain type of firewall.

[TexasOutlaw]

Re: is annyone having problems with their firewall con flicting with the patch?

I am running a cisco 871 router with built in firewall and have not seen any issues at all. FYI.

[Stouf]

Re: is annyone having problems with their firewall con flicting with the patch?

- better with zonealarm DEINSTALLED. even disabled, it continues to make something on the connection. BF2 (and bf42 and bfv i remember) and zonealarm are not friends
- better with kerio unloaded.

[Stouf]

Re: is annyone having problems with their firewall con flicting with the patch?

are you talking about hardware or software FWs ?

[A$$a$$ination]

Re: is annyone having problems with their firewall con flicting with the patch?

^ thanks for that cause i'm running zonealarm and even when i don't have it running i have probs

[A$$a$$ination]

Re: is annyone having problems with their firewall con flicting with the patch?

SW, most of us aren't cool enough for HW

[Stouf]

Re: is annyone having problems with their firewall con flicting with the patch?

ok so keep in mind that zonealarm is really DEEP in the system, too deep i think. the only way to disable it is to deinstall it completly. noticed problems beetween ZA and all the BF's, enemy territory, warcraft3 and WoW. the best is to have a router-firewall (modem-router-FW-accesspoint for me), and creating rules for each of the apps and computers u use. theorically no need for a SW FW. Everyone agree ?

[FURRY BIRD]

Re: is annyone having problems with their firewall con flicting with the patch?

I have Nortons fire wall and it dosen't like BFII

[DLWebmaestro96]

Re: is annyone having problems with their firewall con flicting with the patch?

I run NIS 2005. I disable the virus protection, but leave my firewall enabled. I've never had any noticeable problems. I'm also behind a NetGear router.

[boabynixon]

Re: is annyone having problems with their firewall con flicting with the patch?

i couldnt install the patch until i turned off my norton internet security 2005 and all background programs but once the patch was installed i turned them back on and have had no problems, i keep my firewall on however i do grant BF2.exe access.

Edit: yeah i am also on a router, i cannot host (port forwarding eh?) but i do not have any problems connecting to anything. if your gonna leave yourself open on the net then you'd better format your HDD once you get protection again, you can pick up some nasty things just browsing the web or dloading from kazaa (which my NIS 2005 regularly finds and kills).

[diGriz]

Re: is annyone having problems with their firewall con flicting with the patch?

EA told us about 5 weeks ago that it's best to play BF2 with the firewall OFF.

Do you have a link or something to this "advice"?? So that if it is a official EA line I can use it to raise hell with them for giving out dangerous advice...

- diGriz